(until 1893 Henry Richard Pinker) Sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and spent some time in Rome. While still a student, he executed a bust of the Rev, Edward Benson, later to become Archbishop of Canterbury, for Wellington College (exh. RA 1875). This led on to other portrait commissions. Portraiture was to predominate in Pinker’s œuvre, generally busts of contemporaries and commemorative statues. The latter included an historical equestrian statue of Oliver Cromwell at Marston Moor, shown at the RA in 1882, and a colossal stone statue of Queen Victoria for British Guiana.His statue of Henry Fawcett for Salisbury was exhibited at the RA in 1887. The critic, Marion Spielmann admired the life and even the roughness of some of Pinker’s portrait statues. His ideal works include a Britannia (RA ,1884), and a bronze group entitled the Pride of Old England (RA. 1900).